Cranberry Lake, New York
21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1919 and the latest in 1999. It stands in Clifton town. It lies in ZIP code area 12927. It lies near Matilda Island. The Survey maps it on the Cranberry Lake quadrangle. 174 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,489 feet above sea level.
Then and now
1919 to 1999The same ground, surveyed 80 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.


Compare 1919 against another survey:
Population over time
2 figuresCranberry Lake fell from 200 to 174 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 200 | |
| 2020 | 174 | -26 (-13%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
10 surveys from 21 printed sheetsMatched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.
- 1919 USGS Cranberry Lake quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1921 USGS Cranberry Lake quadrangle1:62500, 7 printings
- 1931 USGS Cranberry Lake quadrangle1:62500
- 1948 USGS Ogdensburg quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1951 USGS Ogdensburg quadrangle1:250000
- 1953 USGS Ogdensburg quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Ogdensburg quadrangle1:250000
- 1968 USGS Cranberry Lake quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1985 USGS Tupper Lake quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1999 USGS Cranberry Lake quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
43 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 43 fires within 5 miles of Cranberry Lake between 1993 and 2020, burning about 35 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 3 were recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Reported cause | Fires |
|---|---|
| Recreation and ceremony | 21 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 6 |
| Natural | 5 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 4 |
| Debris and open burning | 3 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 3 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 1999 | Recreation and ceremony | 1.0 acres | New York Forest Rangers | not named |
| 5 September 2020 | Equipment and vehicle use | 5.0 acres | Fire Department of New York | NA |
| 21 September 2012 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | New York Forest Rangers | JOE INDIAN ISLAND FIRE |
| 16 September 2020 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | New York Forest Rangers | SITE 19 FIRE |
| 16 September 2020 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | NA |
| 13 September 2010 | Natural | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 4 August 2001 | Recreation and ceremony | 1.0 acres | New York Forest Rangers | not named |
| 3 August 1997 | Natural | 1.0 acres | New York Forest Rangers | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
10 of 16 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 16 workings within 5 miles of Cranberry Lake: 14 occurrences, 2 prospects. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Feldspar. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dillon Pond Prospect | Iron, Feldspar | Prospect | ||
| Brandy Brook Anomaly | Iron | Occurrence | 1944 | |
| Brandy Brook Northwest Occurrence | Iron | Occurrence | 1944 | |
| Brandy Brook Southeast Occurrence | Iron | Occurrence | 1944 | |
| Deerlick Rapids Occurrence | Iron | Occurrence | 1945 | |
| Deerlick Rapids Prospect | Iron | Occurrence | 1945 | |
| Fern Anomaly | Iron | Occurrence | 1945 | |
| Hardwood Mill Occurrence | Iron | Occurrence | 1941 | |
| Jarvis Bridge Extension | Iron | Occurrence | 1942 | |
| Jarvis Bridge Extension | Iron | Occurrence | 1942 |
Storms near this place
11 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cranberry Lake in 11 storm reports between 1996 and 2026: 10 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cranberry Lake | $100,000 | Widespread trees and powerlines down from Wanakena to Tupper Lake along Route 3. Some structures, including camps were heavily damaged. |
| July 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cranberry Lake | $20,000 | Numerous trees down along Route 3 and Cranberry Lake. |
| June 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cranberry Lake | $15,000 | More than a dozen trees reported downed by thunderstorm winds. |
| April 2026 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cranberry Lake | $10,000 | Trees down along Mill Street near Silver Lake. |
| April 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cranberry Lake | $10,000 | no account filed |
| June 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cranberry Lake | $5,000 | Several trees downed by thunderstorm winds. |
| July 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cranberry Lake | $5,000 | no account filed |
| May 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cranberry Lake | $2,000 | A few trees down on Mill street. |
| June 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cranberry Lake | $1,000 | no account filed |
| May 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cranberry Lake | $1,000 | no account filed |
| July 2012 | Hail | Cranberry Lake | - | Quarter size hail reported. |
Nearest settlements
The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.
| Map | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cook Corners | 2.9 miles | 21 | |
| Brandy Brook | 3.6 miles | 21 | |
| Shurtleff | 5.4 miles | 15 | |
| Wanakena | 7.6 miles | 21 | |
| Newton Falls | 8.1 miles | 21 | |
| Sevey | 8.2 miles | 15 | |
| Janacks Landing Shelter | 8.2 miles | 21 | |
| Newbridge | 8.6 miles | 15 |
Elsewhere
Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.
| Wikipedia article on Cranberry Lake | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q5181895 | The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0). |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 976196. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.
Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.









